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Topic: Your own pictures as screensavers (Read 2815 times)

I really like the way LMCE displays pictures when it's idle, but I thought I'd like to have our own pictures as well. I got the info from the wiki article at http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Use_my_own_pictures_in_the_Screen_Saver which gave me all the information I needed. However, I found the admin website too cumbersome to use for adding multiple image, so I wrote a script to make the job easier.

I really like the way LMCE displays pictures when it's idle, but I thought I'd like to have our own pictures as well. I got the info from the wiki article at http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Use_my_own_pictures_in_the_Screen_Saver which gave me all the information I needed. However, I found the admin website too cumbersome to use for adding multiple image, so I wrote a script to make the job easier.

I'll add it to the wiki in a few days, after I know it's not going to cause mass panic or do other bad things.

Nice work Richard :-)

Under 0710 you have an improved ability to add pictures through a new menu item in Web Admin -> Files & Media -> Screen Saver this lest you navigate to a directory and visually select images for the screen saver.

Under 0710 you have an improved ability to add pictures through a new menu item in Web Admin -> Files & Media -> Screen Saver this lest you navigate to a directory and visually select images for the screen saver.

Andrew

That's going to be really welcome. I can see the beginnings of that in the current beta2, but I couldn't get it work well for me, and I certainly didn't want to add dozens of images that way, as you could only select each one individually and then click update.

That said, may the next order of business is to provide a button in the WebAdmin screen, that while you are looking at a directory full of images, can add all of them at once. Or is that what you meant by "visually select images"?

Under 0710 you have an improved ability to add pictures through a new menu item in Web Admin -> Files & Media -> Screen Saver this lest you navigate to a directory and visually select images for the screen saver.

Andrew

That's going to be really welcome. I can see the beginnings of that in the current beta2, but I couldn't get it work well for me, and I certainly didn't want to add dozens of images that way, as you could only select each one individually and then click update.

That said, may the next order of business is to provide a button in the WebAdmin screen, that while you are looking at a directory full of images, can add all of them at once. Or is that what you meant by "visually select images"?

Hi Richard,

There is now a 'Select all' tick-box at the bottom the image list so managing large sets of images in individual folders is now much easier. However this does not work with nested folders yet.